Interventional Cardiology

What is Interventional Cardiology?

This is a specialised area in cardiology where treatment of heart and blood vessel conditions are treated in a minimally invasive way, passing a series of tubes (catheters) through the body to alleviate and correct heart conditions; this avoids more invasive open-heart surgery.

This allows the cardiology team at Paragon, one of the most experienced teams in the world, to deliver cardiac care to animals as small as 1.5kg, and as technology gets better, we can operate on smaller and smaller patients.

Conditions include birth defects such as a patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonic stenosis, amongst others but also conditions affecting older animals needing stents and pacemakers; this is all done through small keyhole incisions.

We are committed to providing the best clinical outcomes and perform a clinical audit to benchmark our success against those of other centres and our superb clinical outcomes drive other centres to improve their clinical outcomes too.

Did You Know?

The Paragon Cardiology service is one of the busiest centres for congenital heart disease surgery in the UK.

Led by Chris Linney, the renowned cardiology team has operated on and saved over 200 young animals in the past 3 years.

For many congenital heart conditions, surgery can be curative or help to provide an excellent quality of life.

Paragon offers a puppy and kitten murmur clinic for owners at a special rate for screening for major heart issues.